And I Did It My Way (I Wish)

Hey everyone how's it been?? It's been pretty wild here so listen up!

So first off, transfers happened and the A.F.P.T. (Alaska Fighting Palm Trees) will be breaking up. Elder Kemeny is leaving me here in Timisoara and going to Sibiu. I'm going to miss him, but he's going do great things. Now the question is who will be with me. Good question, I don't know yet because I will be training one of the new missionaries here in Timisoara!! I'm pretty excited but also pretty freaked out because new missionary. But it'll be good.

This was a great week for us here in Timisoara and the future really looks promising. This week we really wanted to have urgency while we taught, contacted, and did missionary work and we saw good success doing so. We saw probably the most success out of English because many people marked that they were interested in the Gospel. We made sure to contact them right away to set up something and it went really well! Hopefully it keeps going well as time goes on, but for now it's really great. We haven't been able to meet with many people that we've been working with because they all seem to be out of town at the same time, either in Deva or Alba Iulia or Brasov or wherever. But we have been keeping good contact and this week should be full of lessons.

I was also blessed to go on an exchange this week with Elder Atkinson, my companion in the MTC. It was a really solid day and we got some work done. Our best experience was when a woman named Irina came up to us and asked us if we could talk. Long story short, she wants to know what faith is the true faith. We were able to testify of the truth and we hope we can meet up with her again and have a real sit down lesson to help her feel the Spirit.

I love this gospel, I love this church and I hope that everyone feels the importance of Christ in our lives. I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!!

Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen

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